St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-08
YOUNG LADY TOURISTS.
Six Girls Who Tramped from
Switzerland to Paris.

Switzerland to Paris.
A band of walking women has just
arrived in Paris that is at once original.
courageous and interesting. 1t consists
of six young, unmarried women, who
have tramped across country from
Switzerland. Too much could not be said
in praise of the energy of these young
ladies, hardly out of school, says a Paris
letter in the Philadelphia Press, while
good deal might perhaps be said in de-
precation of their temerity. But airs
well, etc, and the end justifies, etc.
more fun and experience than they could
in any other way that can be thought of.
Their trip took them over the mount
tainS of Switzerland, starting from
the TyrOl, through Geneva and
Lyons. They had no escort what
ever, refusing haughtily even the prof
fered services of a worthy old lady who
wanted to act as chaperone for the
party. Each one was armed with a staff
and over her shoulder she slung bag
filled with light travelling outfit. This
outfit included i'll every case ham
mock, and when they paused for the
night the hammOckS were swung
in the trees and the young tramps
rolled themselves up i'll blankets and
went to sleep under the guard of the
moon and the stars. There were days,
or nights rather. when the weather was
not prOpitiOuS for this sort of entertain
ment: i'll such cases they cOndeScended
to put up at a tavern. Everywhere on
their journey they have created a sensa-
ton. and the universal interest aroused
in them was undoubtedly their chief
protection against uncomfortable adven-
lures.
A copous journal was kept of their
experiences. each member OF the party
taking her turn at keeping the record
of the day. The journal contains up
ward of 1000 pages of manuscript,
closely written. The suggestion that
the last years of these Young
ladies' lives may be narrowed
with rheumatism is irresistible.
but at the present they show 10 I'M
happy signs of their winter Journey.
One cannot help wondering. too. what
their parents were thinking of when
they allowed the girls to depart. But,
perhaps, like their American sisters.
they took the thing into their own hands
and asked permission of nobody.
A New Fad.
London Truth
One of the most extraordinary freaks
of fashion INDUCED in during the past
winter has been the entire absence of
white undergarmentS for ladies; colored
stockings were first decreed instead
of white ones, and then all
the rest of the underwear
followed suit. The extreme of
elegance is for lady in ball toilette to
be entirely arrayed in garments the
color of her dress. The undermost gar
ments of Surah. the corset of satin. the
inner petticoat of finely embroidered
flannel, the outer one of taffetas, must
all be i'll the pale blue or pink or scarlet
Of the dress. Fine cambria, dotted
or striped in fine lines in a
vivid scarlet. and finished with
scal!ops as substitute for surah for the
undergarments. Even the handkerchief
is 10 longer white, but is in colored
cambria. b0rdered with buttonhole-
stitch embroidery in white and having
the Wearcr S monogram worked in white.
RucheS in crepe liSSe or in
pfcated cambria TO be worn to
the throat and wrists are as totally
out of fashion as though they had
never been in it. In fact, nothing white
remains but the nighttlresS, and that is
now supplemented by matinee in CASH
mere or surah, deliberately trimmed